Posted on 09/03/2026 9:48:41 PM PDT by BusterDog
OpenAI’s next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a “generational leap in capability” for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it’s also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI’s “critical cybersecurity capability threshold” — but the company promises that won’t lead to a repeat of its models hacking a rival company’s internal systems.
“If we fast-forward a couple of years, and we look back and say, ‘When was it, really, that AGI was created?’ I think it’s going to be about this time, and I think it might be about this model,” OpenAI president Greg Brockman said during a Thursday press briefing. Later in the call, he added, “For me personally, I do think we’re there … I think it’s not unreasonable to feel that we are now in the AGI era.”
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Why can’t FR spelchk get it right?
If you think the AGI era is something, wait until the BGI or CGI eras are here.
The DGI and EGI eras are predicted to be some years out.
It could be hundreds of years before we finally get to the ZGI era.
Where can I get one of them systems with an AGI…Adjusted Gross Income? Mine’s not high enough.
Complete and utter bull.
After that we may be able to build a brain for women! /;D
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